Dotty private link

dotty private link¶

Decrypt the profile's private tree and link it into $HOME.

Synopsis¶

Materialize the active profile's plaintext under the dotty data directory (0700) and symlink it over $HOME through the private active-profile indirection, so activating another profile swaps every private file at once. Decryption is incremental — only entries whose ciphertext changed are decrypted, so a steady-state relink never touches the security key. Entries that cannot be decrypted (key unplugged) or that carry unreconciled local edits are skipped with a warning and the previous copy stays usable; --strict turns any skip into a failure. Existing real files at link sites resolve per --on-conflict; by default dotty asks (backing up when there is no terminal).

dotty private link [flags]

Examples¶

  dotty private link
  dotty private link --on-conflict=backup --strict

Options¶

  -h, --help                 help for link
      --on-conflict string   existing-file resolution: backup, adopt, skip, or fail (default: ask; backup when not a terminal)
      --strict               fail on any entry that cannot be decrypted or conflicts

Options inherited from parent commands¶

      --profile string   profile to operate on (defaults to the active profile)
      --repo string      private repository (default: the active profile's stored answer)

Dotty private link